Rice Harvesting Knife

Small iron blade mounted on flat piece of wood. For cutting rice. "The operation is performed with a small rude knife-blade mounted in a wooden handle along its whole length. . . . This is held in the hollow of the right hand, the ends of a short cross bar projecting between the first and second fingers and between thumb and first finger. The thumb seizes and presses the head of each blade of corn [sic] against the edge of the knife. The ears thus cropped are thrown into a basket slung round the neck."